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Frantz

2016

François Ozon

Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Johann von Bülow, Marie Gruber ...

7.2

6,759

Drama In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance's grave to lay flowers.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"'Frantz' is arguably one of the straightest films Ozon has made (...) but his complex sensibilities and fine-tuned irony are very evident in a mature work that transcends genre pastiche"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"François Ozon remakes Ernst Lubitsch’s anti-war drama 'Broken Lullaby' (...) . The results are oddly more artificial than the 1932 original, and considerably less moving"	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"A richly imagined and superbly assembled period piece (...) this drama continues the director’s penchant for spinning thematically complex material into highly accessible fare"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"There is exactly one great sequence in 'Frantz' (...) and even though it’s a short scene, it creates an impact that suggests that it was the entire reason for the film’s existence (...) The rest (...) unfortunately, is a mostly dreary and heavy-handed affair."	NEU
United Kingdom	Nigel M. Smith The Guardian	"François Ozon surprises again with sumptuous period war drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"While it is far from Ozon’s worst movie, it is perhaps the first one he's made that feels like it could be the work of any other director (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It’s a rare beauty (...) In contrasting cultural superiority and xenophobia against the healing power of art and forgiveness (...) 'Frantz' is a film of its time … and ours (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"'Frantz' is the work of a rascal, but a rascal in an unusually reflective frame of mind. Even with its mysteries solved, you can’t help but keep turning it over (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"'Frantz' is François Ozon’s best film in years"	POS

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